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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
WARMED PEE DYNAMITE.
Four Persons Killed in an Explosion in


HALIFAX, n s., Dec. 23.-An explosion
of dynamite at a limestone quarry near
Brookfeld, Colchester County, this
morning, killed four men, one OF them
being Alexander Mcdonald, proprietor
of the quarry. They were warming dy-
Mantle, previous to using it for blast,
when it exploded, it is supposed from
overheating. A man and a woman who
were present escaped with slight in
iuries. The building was destroyed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
Suicide Through Despondency

At Mobile, Ala, on the oath, Cecil
Fleming, who for many years was SUI
perintendent of the Mobile & Ohio Rail
road, then for awhile superintendent o f
the Cincinnati Southern and finally Of
the Texas Pacific New Orleans division,
was found dead with bullet hole in his
brain He had been in very bad health
and out of employment for some time
and it is supposed that he committed sui
eide.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
Texas, Bid for Immigration.

DALLAS, Tex, Dec. GA state meet
ing to further immigration to Texas, met
here to-day with delegates present from
every representative district in the
state. The object of the convention
was to consult how best to obtain an
increased flow of immigration and capi-
tai into Texas.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
Mr.. Burgess Christmas Gift.

The subscriptions to the national
purse" to be given to Edward Burgess,
the designer of the Puritan, Mayfower
and Volunteer, each of which in turn
successfully defended the Americas
cup, has reached 80, 1925, and a check
for that amount has been sent to Mr..
Burgess at Boston.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
NOROUAY rs OUT.
The Manitoba Premier Forced to Resie
His Office.

His Office.
WINNIPEG, Man., Dec. 24.-The local
political situation was brought to a focus
by the conservative members of the
House, and Norquay has been forced to
the wall, and has announced his resig-
nation, with that of Lariyiere, both hav-
ing been compelled by the force of pub
in connection with the Hudson Bay Rail
way bonds to retire.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28

The North German Lloyd steamship,
Ems, has been libeled at New York by
two of its passengers, William A. Hardt
and Henry Friedman, for damages re-
ceived by their baggage in October, 1885.
when a fire broke out in the steamers
hold. Mr. Hardt asks Ter So, $50 and Mr..
Friedman for 1889. The United States
District court has decided that the COM
is reSDODSible
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
Three Persons Killed.

Mrs. O'Neill, son and daughter, were
killed near Rhineback, N. Y, on the
24th. while walking on the track of the
New York Central Railroad by being
run over by an express train.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
ORDERED BACK TO CHyNA.
Fifty Women to be Return ed to the Land
of the Tea Flower

Fifty Women to be Return ed to the Land
of the Tea Flower.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.-Orders were
made in the United States circuit court
and district court yesterday withdraw
ing the writs Of habeas corpus in
the cases of over fifty Chinese wom-
en-, who arrived here recently, and
remanding the women to custody of the
steamship company TO be taken back to
China. The women were detained by
order of the collector of the port on the
ground that they were imported fox
immoral purposes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
Two Chinamen TO HANG

OTTAWA, Ont, Dec. 20.-It is stated to-
day that the government will not inter
fere with the sentence of the two China
men, Lee Sam and All Feat, who have
been condemned to be hanged at Vic
toria, B. c., January 80, for the murder
of Chinese woman
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28

ROBERT G. RICHARDSON, Of Bolts
ford, VT, is an uneasy soul. He has
Just sold his farm and moved, which
makes the thirtieth time that he has
done the same thing during the last
thirty-fiv9 ye9rs
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28

Fire at St. Louis on the 24th, de-
stroyed the building 514 and $40 Locust
Street, occupied by Udell & Crunden.
wooden ware, and the Charles E. Clark
Notion Company. The two firms lose
sos, 600; insurance $4,000.
Fire at the state penitentiary at Mich
igan City, Mich, on the oath, de-
stroyed the shoe department. Loss
Szh 900
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
A COURT SENSATION.
Sudden End of the Case Against Boobies
McGarigle's LiberatOrs.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. 22.-The trial of DR..
st. John, Levi Dell and Capt. Freer, in
dicted for conspiracy in aiding in the
escape of Warden McGarigle, came
to a sudden close this noon. The
states attorney acknowledged in open
court that he had not evidence enough
to convict, so Judge Collins ordered the
jury to bring in verdict of acquittai
and the state nolled the other indict
ments against them. The indictments
against Capt. Irwin, master of the Blake,
were also nolled.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28

ing an invitation to luncheon last
winter at tho house of q cabinet
minister she dispatched her servant to
the hostess with the request that she
should be favored with q list Of the
guests invited in order to determine
whether her reply should be one of ac-
Ceptanceo or refusal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
work of a Fire Bug.

H1LLsBoRo, Tex, Dec. 2l.--Fire de-
stroyed the stores of L. B. Brown and
L. Brin, and the Sturgis National Bank.
Loss, 100000, with an insurance of
$4,000. The fire was of incendiary
origin. Joseph Levine has been ar
rested
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
A Desperate ARRAY.

A fatal difficulty took place at Jack
son, Miss, on the oath, between McWil-
lie Mitchell, son of DR.. T. F. Mitchell,
superintendent of the lunatic asy lum,
and bob" Whitesides, a negro des-
perado, in which Mitchell had his throat
cut Mitchell, who is dying, before fall
ing shot Whitesides dead. Mitchell was
in company with several young men,
who witnessed the difficulty.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
Fire in a Penitentiary.

Fire broke out in the state peniten-
tiary at Michigan City, Ind, on the
night of the oath, and completely de-
stroyed the shoe department. The loss
is estimated at SIS, 900. The fire caused
little or no excitement among the con-
yictS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28

Burned to a Cinder

At 9 o'clock on the night of the Goth,
fire broke out in small frame residence
of f. L. Guy, Canadian Pacific con-
ductor in Winnipeg. Guy had just re-
turned from his run, and having been
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
KILLED BY A BONE.

A Burglar Defends HimseI From Arrest
With Dynamite.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 24.-Patrol-
man Cook last night, saw a burglar at
work and tried to arrest him. He threw
something at the officer which struck
him on the head and exploded, fractur-
ing the skull. 1t is supposed to have
been dynamite. Cook is in a critical
condition but may recover.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
Jobn nj. Barclay Dead.

John M. Barclay, for many years
clerk of the national House of Represen-
tatives. died at Washington on the oath.
He was II years of age.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28
She Hesitated.
From the Washington Canital

1t is rel sled OF e. young lady well
known in society, ard who, at least
on one 81 lie of the family, has no oc-
casion for INDUCING in pride Of birth,
that upon the occasion of her receiv-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-12-28

Irueed ~ be JOKE Win Grants
staff that the old man only knew two
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13
BASE BALL MATTERS.
Gossip Concerning the Wheeling Associa
linn AIAirs-

Gossip Concerning the Wheeling Associa-
tion Affairs.
No new PLAYERS have been signed this
week beyond the eight already mentioned,
but oyertures have been made to a Michi-
gan battery which is highly spoken OF and
which Is deemed capable OF frt-class work.
The Association would like 10 hear from
some one who has had experience in grad
lug. n it wants to have the grounds rolled
up st once aud put in trim for playing.
The second assessment will be levied
about Wednesday, and As the ground i'm
provements will be begun this week it is
10 be hoped that the stockholders will pay
up promptly. Bids will be received for
the score card privilege and also for the sale
OF light refreshments. The League clubs
elsewhere are rapidly signing their men
Mansfield and Evansville have completed
their teams, Sandusky is nearly iull, and
Columbus and Toledo have Just began 10
make their selections. Interest in the ma
tiOnal game is growing rapidly and by the
time the season opens the city will be en-
thusiaStic. This is the fist season that
Wheeling has ever hal a team in = league,
and aS a league is absolutely necessary for
the existence OF a club the chances are that
the club will make some money. Ii sure
" should DO better than Mansfield, which
last wear ran a Salaried team, playing only
such games as could he secured, and I'm
ished the season SSs7 ahead.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13


4 tour of the Seventh ward, with ITS
fearfully and wonderfully complicated sys-
TEN of streets and alleys, which bring one
ont in the most unexpected places at the
most inopportune times, cannot but cause
the pedestrian to sigh for the old survey
of fty wears ago. with its broad, straight
streets and regular squares. On the map
OF ISIS the Garden spot Is laid ont in i
very handsome manner. Seven streets
run north and south, they being,
beginning on the east side, Soto
mac, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Broad
wag. York. Huron and Wabash. Water
street ran entirely around the Island, and
Was sixty feet wide. What a splendid
drive il would have made! Beginning at
the upper end, the cross streets were: On
tario. Erie, Michigan, New Hampshire,
Vermont Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Mis-
souri,. Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, keP-
tucky, Tennessee, Carolina, Georgia, Ala
hama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas,
Florida, and Orleans, at the extreme south
end. The present Ohio street was Ken
lucky street in this old survey, while Ohio
street on the map extended from the east
end of Back" bridge straight across IL
a point about opposite the present water
works. The squares were divided east and
! west by 2O-fOOt alleys, and north and
south BY l6-fOot alleys, and the lots were
uniformly 40Xl2O feet, twelve lots 10 the
square. Broadway ran the whole length
OF the Island. and was n splendid street
one hundred feet wide. Ohio and Nir-
GINA streets were eighty feet wide, and all
Others sixty feet. There was n mar
ket space, at what is o the intersection
Of Broadway and Virginia streets What n
pity this old survey did not stand!
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13
New Corporations.

Secretary of State Walker has issued 4
charter to the Carver Coal Company, or
gauized for the purpose of mining, ship,
ping and vending coal. manufacturing and
selling coke, lumber aud iron and doing
all business connected with a charter ci
said kind. The principal place of bust,
ness TO be st Coal Valley, the charter to ex-
pire March lSt, 1887. S25,OOO his been
Seribed and s., GOO paid in with the priv
lege of increasing the capital stock to
SlGO. eco The capital is d~ividedinto shares
OF SlO1 each and held as follows: John
Carver, Enoch Carver, Francis Carver,
Fannie Carver and Aaron Carver, all OF
Coal Valley.
Secretary Of State Walker hiss issued .
charter to the Coal River Mining aud
Lumber Company. The principal place
of business TO be Charleston, kaDaEha
county; charter to expire MACh 9Th, 1870.
S564,0 OO have been subscribed and S76i,-
200 paid in, With privilege OF Increasing
the stock to 81, OGO, 0oO in all, The stock
is divided into shares Of 500 each, and
held As follows: Robert Mitchell and
Frank j. Harrison, Baltimore, ASS
shares eaGh; Meredith Wills, COalburg,
245 shares; A. E Hill, Charleston, 3
shares; W. A. McCorkle, Charleston, 2
shares
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13
PROPOSED EXTENSION
OF the Motor Line Through the City 10
BeuWOOd.
4 SIGH FOR An OLD ISLAND SURVEY.
Anew Stock Company -RumOred Removal
Of Steel Company.
TREMENDOUS OUTPUT OF STEEL,

hear that q very important extension
of the Elm Grove motor line through the
city and down to BenwoOd, has beer talk
ed over in a quiet way by some OF our cin-
zens. The idea seems to be TO extend the
line from the present terminous at the City
Hall on down Sixteenth street to Main, down
Main to Twenty-fOurth, up Twenty-tourth
TO jacob street, and thence on down town.
avoiding the present street car line to and
acrcss Forty-eighth street and into Ben
wood. Two OF three citizens have express
ed a willingness to take stock IN the exten-
sion and residents OF the Eighth ward are
said to be very much in favor OF 1t, as are,
also, q great many Benwood citizens, VINO
recognize that = motor line, stopping Al
n point TO take on or let OF passengers
would offer many advantages over the
present railroads, which only stop at one
OF two pllces-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13
TRACKED DOWN.
Interesting story of the Capture of j. T.
Debler.

Interesting story OF the capture Oh 4" t.
DebIer.
The methods used by the detective IN
tracinp nm the frauds of J. f. Dobler, an
account of whose crime was published III
the REGISTER yesterday, will doubtless he
interesting, as also an interview with the
prisoner had bv a Bellaire reporter. When
the firm of Arbuckle Bros. began to sus'
Uicion that the accounts OF judgments
were crooked they employed Gustav Frank,
a pinkertOn detective. and sent him into
Ohio. with the names or parties and
places where judgments had been rendered.
The first place he struck he learned h a
no such a firm had ever lived there and a
Justice of the Peace by that name had
never been heard OF. The second place he
visited resulted the same. This SATISFIED
him that fraud had been practiced and he
sought 10 locate the guilty party. Visiting
Quaker City, where = judgment had been
taken he found no firm and no Justice, as
usual: but the check for the money had
been sent there, and from the postmaster
he learned that a letter received
at that office from the supposed
attorney, had been forwarded to "Bellalre,
care of box 40 by 4 request from there
signed ny the Supposed Justice OF the Peace.
Following this clue he cSme 10 Bellalre,
and found that box II belonged 10 Dobler.
He found At the Bank OF Wheeling that
Dobler had had numerous checks from Ar
buckle Bros. Coffee Co. caShed within the
past two years. The house was Informed
of the discoveries, and they sent on their
agent. Mr.. James Turner, to look after the
matter.
lie at once made complaint before
'Suuire l. .eder against Dohlvr, IN accord
| anre with facts above reclted. The war
rant was placed in the hands OF a Con-
| stable. who, with Detective Frank, started
after him. 4 boy was sent over
10 Dobler's 10 tell him that a
gentleman from Wheeling wished
To see him at on Cummins' hardware
store As soOu - he could ZONE down. lie
hunted to the store, and aS o as ne en-
tered the detective put out his hand to-
wards him and Joseph extended has, when
| the handouts we're claSped upon his wrist
He was taken to the lookup, where he has
been confined ever since. Charges on only
Two counts have vet been made.
4 talk with DObler while he was IN the
| cell showed that he is terribly agitated.
He felt rs though hope WAS almost gone,
aud said: Why they won't even let my
/ wife come in to see me. He does not deny
receiving o from the checks OF this
company, but says none Of them were in
his name, and that he got the checks from
other parties aud that they can do nothing
with him, lie virtually admits everything,
hut constantly repeats that no papers or
checks were sent in his name.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13
IN A A WAY.
The News OF the Day POinfediy Para
graphed for Hssty Readers

The News OF the Day fointeuiy NA'
Kraphed for Hssty Readers
ONE deed of trust was admitted to
record yesterday.
Our Moundsville letter Is ~unavoidably
crowded out 1t will appear tomorrow
The National Benefit Society, OF New
York. has filed its charter with the Seere-
tary of State
THERE was q big rush at the barber
shops last night The new ordinance Is IN
force to-day.
A~SIS-year-old son of Thomas Perkins
WAS kicked in the head by \ horse at the
second ward market house yesterday.
A HORSE belonging to Principal Steven
son, of the Island school, was shot :
or two AGO. II was sick with rheumatism
THE Ohio River r. r. is now open for
freight traffic between Wheeling and Point
Pleasant, ". Va, q distance Of l1S miles
ALL persons wishing TO saw money ior
n ninv day should consult the advertise
meut of the Citizens Building Association
THE Circle of Friendship will give 3
select hall at the New M9nnerchor Hall,
on April Is. Mayors full orchestra Will
furnish the music.
CONSTABLE LOVE arrested an insane
woman named LOOMS on Chapline street,
! about noon Yesterday. She WAS turned
over to her brother.
OFFICER MCNICHOL. arrested Jaoot
Crowley and Charles Dinsmore, yesterday
for vagTancy. They were given a hearns
at 4 special matinee.
The South Side Singing Society will give
a select masque dance At their hall on In
dsy night, March Is BirCh's orchestra
will furnish the music.
II. c. MEYER N the commission houS'
on Twelfth street. is going 10 embark IN s
new business of bottling OF malt and car
Donate liquors, April lSt'
The Windsor Athletic Society of thu
Eighth ward, will give 4 select maSqu'
dance in their hall, On Easter Monday
Prot. Birch'S orchestra will furnish un'
music.
The Wesley VI. +. church Will give al
entertainment at their church next Tues
day evening. which promiSeSt to he a CRANE
SurCeSS 4 very fine programme has heei
selected. Miss Ella Dillon will take part
THE exhibition at the ALEXANDRIA Palace
rink last evening by the Meredith Bros
WAS very good, and they were often ap
plauded nv the lane crowd present Th'
feat OF going through a Is inch hoop Will
\ lighted lamp on his head was SUCCESSFUL
" accomplished by Claude. Next Satur
iay evening Jesse Burkett and Eugene
| Hanke will skate 1t the above rink, Bur
kett 10 receive a start.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13
MISS FORTESQT E.

Next Friday and Saturday evenings, and
Saturday matinee, that bright particular
star, Miss May F~ortesque, one Of the
queens of the English dramatic stage, will
appear at the Opera House in a series Of
strong characters, and there will he a
great rush TO see and hear her. Friday
night ''Frnu-Frou'' will be presented, fol-
lowed at the Saturday matinee by
Gretchen" and Saturday night by a
great double bill, King Rene's Daughter
and Sweetheart Miss FoTteSque's
talent, grace and beauty have combined
TO make her present American tOur one
mutually pleasant and profitable TO her
self, her company, and the public, and her
reception her in Wheeling will doubtless
rival in warmth the greetings she has re-
ceived all over the country.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13
Compliments to Martin Thornton.

The Grafton Sentinel makes \ very COM
plimentary reference TO the career of Ar.
Martin Thornton, the popular reStaurateur
OF this city. aud the Preston County Journal
says: Martin ThOrauton, the we'll known
restaurant mar OF Wheeling. will remove
his place of business, April lst, from his
old quarters up Market street a few doors,
Ia the New Brunswick Cafe, which he has
leased and retitted. Mr.. Thornton has
been in the business for fourteen years, and
is one of the few men who have succeeded
and he has succeeded because he gives
the best of fare At very reasonable prices.
In his new and elegant quarters he will
have rooms for transient guests. We can,
from personal experience, advise our read
es visiting Wheeling, to patrOnize Mr..
Thornton. His new number, after April
lst. will Ike 1l35 81 Market street"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13
ERANK MAYo IN "NoRnEcK.

Wednesday and Thursday, the 23d and
24th insts., Mr.. Frank MAYO and a strong
company will present his new play Nor
deck for the first time before a Wheeling
audience. This play is founded on a novel
treating on the Baltic provinces OF Prus-
sian Poland of one hundred years ago. 1t
is not a dramatization of the novel hut q
distinct creation OF the authors, who used
the book merely as a historical guide to
their work. Waldemar NordeCk. the
hero. is the issue OF a meSsalllance; his
father a wealthy German OF common orr
gin. his mother a daughter OF the noble
Polish family of Morynski's. She deserts
her husband shortly after the birth OF his
sou. He disinherits her and deprives her
Of the control of the son; shortly after he
is assassinated. She marrieS again, has
another son, Leo, and again becomes a
widow. At the opening of the play Wal
demar has grown 10 manhood. The prln-
cess, his mother, sends for him: he hastens
TO her, hungry for a mothers love, and
halls this call as a long deferred
cry of her heart for his. With HIM, on
his return Ia the castle, is an uncle who
has had tine care OF him, and who Is full OF
hate and fears, and trIes 10 pursuade
Waldemar tn return home with him The
Princess finds them together, and angry at
the uncle, evinccS a cOldueSs which Waldo
mar thinks intended for him alone. StuDg
by her apparent dislike he Is rushing away
in a lit OF rage when his cousin, Wanda
| Morynski, appears upon the scene; be
recognizes her As one whom he had guided
through the forest in the morning. Here
commences the love interest of the work.
| Waldemar sees the need of All education
and goes TO the University. He leaves
| Villica and its revenues in charge of his
mother, and, during his two years alb
sence, she uses them TO further certain
Polish plots. Waldemar arrives home
Just in time To Illustrate these, and he
comes master of the situation. Bitter
scenes follow between mother and son.
She sees and recognizes the nobility OF
Waldemar, but, in her anger al defeat,
tries tn drown an ever growing love for
him. The son, Leo, Jealous of him, orders
him asSlssinated. The mother discovers
this, and the great natural instinct of a
mothers love finally conquers, and she
tries TO save him, abandoning her Polish
schemes Of revolution. Wanda also learns
of his peril and goes 10 warn him. But all
are COMPOUNDED by the death Of Leo, who
has been killed by mistake, and who has
fallen by the hand of the man who was the
assassin of the elder Nordeck. The clouds
of hate roll away and the sunshine Of love
beams brightly over all. The mother is
reconciled TO her son, and, with Wanda
clasped 10 his breast, Nordeck finds the
rruitiOn of all his hopes and desires.